Salieri fixates on Mozart's name, "Amadeus," which he interprets as "Beloved by God" instead of "Lover of God." The name, Salieri believes, is a sign that God has lavished a bounty on an unworthy vessel. What? He's never heard someone complain that God didn't given him the good things he deserved? Weirdly, when the old Salieri delivers his complaint in a confessional, the priest (Herman Meckler) is mute with shock. Salieri's conceit is that since he's a good servant of God he ought to have been rewarded with God-given gifts. No one has mixed down Hulce's grating guffaw as Mozart, a cross between Stan Laurel's titter and a laughing hyena.
The sound has been rerecorded to modern audiophile standards. This version includes longer footage of the musical numbers and an extended finale scene depicting the composition of Mozart's requiem. The 1984 film is being released as Amadeus, the Director's Cut. Murray Abraham) is nothing: a smooth, correct, court politician, who wins the awards and preferment that should have rightly gone to the great Mozart. Compared to this musical titan, the rival composer Antonio Salieri (F. PETER SHAFFER'S argument in both his stage play and screenplay for Amadeus has it that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce) is a coarse genius, a cackler, a letch and a punk rocker. Twenty years after, director Milos Forman pads out musical epic 'Amadeus' Horsing Around: Tom Hulce plays a maddeningly gifted Mozart in 'Amadeus.'
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